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A mass surveillance system is being built in this country and Rangely is a part of it. We don't have to be. Tell the Town Council to put an end to it.

SUMMARY
  • Three cameras installed in Rangely are part of a privately owned nationwide surveillance system. Call it the "New Stasi".
  • Taxpayer money is used to build this system to spy on taxpayers.
  • Your travel history is collected and stored in a searchable database each time you pass a camera.
  • Images from the cameras are reportedly sent overseas for analysis.
  • The system has been abused by police in some locations for stalking.
  • Citizens across the country are pushing back against the government overreach once the cameras are discovered. Read articles in the NEWS area.
  • Update: New video. The January 27, Town Council meeting..
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    • Three Automatic License Plate Reader cameras (which do much more than just read your plate) have been quietly placed at HY64 & River Road, HY64 & 139 and HY64 & Shale Drive. These cameras are not owned by the Rangely Police Department, the town or the county. The cameras are owned by Flock Group Inc., a for profit private surveillance company, with data provided by subscription to the Rangely Police Department at a cost of 9000 taxpayer dollars per year. That data is also provided to unknown third parties who also pay Flock for the data or simply sign a security agreement. Worse yet this data is stored in the "cloud" where it is vulnerable to attack by hackers.

    Each time motion is detected by a camera, very high quality video footage is captured and transmitted through the cloud to a data center. At the data center, frames of the video are analyzed by AI. If the image contains a vehicle, optical character recognition is used to read the license plate and any other text on the vehicle. An analysis of the image also identifies the color, make and model of the vehicle and items such as bike racks, tool boxes & body damage, etc. This "fingerprint" of the vehicle is time stamped along with the vehicle's location, a photograph and stored in a searchable database.

    UPDATES
  • 04/08/26: Benn Jordan: Take Down Your Smart Cameras
  • 02/23/26: Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

    • A vehicle's fingerprint is compared with a so called "HOTLIST" and if there is a match the police are notified. That is a good thing. But keep in mind that even if a your vehicle is not wanted, the record of your passing the camera is still stored in the searchable database, and don't forget, AI makes mistakes. Does it matter if records of your movements are stored in a database?

    It should.....

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